That linear title is held today by Anderson Silva. But while he won the UFC title nearly four years ago to start his record-breaking reign, believe it or not he actually claimed the linear title four weeks ago.

It's pretty simple. Just the concept that if fighter A beat fighter B and fighter B beat fighter C then fighter A should be able to beat fighter C. You can take it a lot deeper than that but that's the basic idea.

It's pretty simple. Just the concept that if fighter A beat fighter B and fighter B beat fighter C then fighter A should be able to beat fighter C. You can take it a lot deeper than that but that's the basic idea.

Oh ok! That makes more sense! So basically even though Carlos beat Nick Diaz, it does not necessarily mean that he will be able to beat BJ Penn?!